Managing Access to SaaS Applications

IT professionals are grappling with not one, but three revolutions at the same time.

• First, cloud computing provides easy and dynamic access to information technology.
• Next, the ecosystem of cloud-based SaaS applications has exploded thanks to cloud computing.
• Finally, this SaaS ecosystem has helped power an even bigger boom of consumer-friendly mobile devices and apps that access SaaS.

This Essential Guide examines the opportunities and challenges of empowering, yet controlling, user access to SaaS applications. Specifically, identity management as a service promises to simplify secure access, and management of SaaS applications while reducing password sprawl. This guide will also review how mobile computing has added to the complexity of managing access to both corporate data and SaaS, and additionally help evaluate the options available on the market.